In this video the causes of the 1641 rebellion are explored. The 1641 rebellion in northconnacht the cause and nature of. Page 6 on the 30th january 1649, king charles 1 was taken outside the banqueting hall, where he was publically beheaded for being a tyrant, traitor and enemy of the people. The 1641 depositions are among the most important documents relating to early modern irish history.
The irish uprising, 1641 t he irish uprising of 1641 was a longterm result of the plantation policy of tudor and stuart monarchs under which ireland was aggressively colonised by protestant settlers from england and scotland from the mid16th century, irish landowners were dispossessed to make way for the settlers and a vicious cycle developed whereby rebellion against the english. Witness statements from irish rebellion and massacres of. Islandmagee was the site of the massacre of more than 3,000 irish catholics at the outset of the irish rebellion of 1641, with one witness testifying, about the beginning of november, the english and scots forces in carrickfergus murdered in one night, all the inhabitants of the territory of islandmagee to the number of above 3,000 men women. The outbreak of the nine years war in tudor ireland 1993 and has edited a number of volumes, including political ideology in ireland, 1541 1641 1999, information, media and power through the ages 2001 and the battle of kinsale 2004. The british background to the irish rebellion of 1641. Religion, ethnicity and conversion in the 1641 irish rebellion. Cromwell and irish migration to the caribbean published in confederate war and cromwell, cromwell, early modern history 15001700, features, issue 4 julaug 2008, volume 16. The roots of the 1641 rebellion lay in the failure of the english state in ireland to assimilate the native irish elite in the wake of. Recent research argues that the red shanks are the result of the large intake of servants in the seventeenth century. The sheer volume of deaths associated with the 1641 rebellion is a contentious issue, not least because the number of protestant fatalities was soon inflated to several hundreds of. English newsbooks and irish rebellion 16411649 michael. It is hoped to build an extensive database reflecting irish lives, giving them a chance to be heard, remembered and to add their voice to the historical record. In 1541, henry viii summoned a parliament in ireland.
In the explosion of serials that followed 4,600 between 1641 and 1649, ninetytwo percent contained articles on ireland. The 1641 rebellion played a crucial role in shaping the triple stuart monarchy during the seventeenth century and triggered a decade of civil war in ireland. Percevalmaxwell gives considerable attention to the structure of the irish parliament in 1640 and 1641 and the decisions made by that body in both the commons and the lords. The impact of the 1641 rebellion upon england and wales, 1641 5 volume 18 issue 70 keith lindley. Anne barbeau gardiner, a contributing editor of the nor, is professor emerita of english at john jay college of the city university of new york. Keywords 1641 rebellion, memory and history, northern ireland. The default shown for an individual field edit or a relationship edit indicates the action taken by the cpdf system when data fail the edit. John gibneys book deals almost entirely with the history of the history of the 1641 rebellion, the memory of that event in protestant consciousness, the uses to which that memory was put, the bitter disputes as to the reliability of the depositions, and the continuing resonance of 1641 over the next centuries.
Though catholic ireland failed to win lasting political autonomy, the 1640s was the only time before 1922 that ireland enjoyed legislative independence and catholics worshipped. Bloody history of the 1641 rebellion is published online. Masters theses by an authorized graduate school editor of lsu digital. The irish rebellion of 1641 and the wars of the three kingdoms. The 1641 rebellion in irish history and memory, by john gibney university of wisconsin press, 20. Its divisive legacy, based primarily on the sharply. Providence and the 1641 irish rebellion university of iowa. Full text of the irish rebellion of 1641, with a history of the events which led up to and succeeded it see other formats. Few had been able to make the transition to a market economy and as a result many had ended up heavily in debt forcing them to either sell or mortgage much, or in some cases, all of their lands. Personal histories is an initiative by history ireland, which aims to capture the individual histories of irish people both in ireland and around the world. It includes easytouse cards for changing stats and pictures, dllentries modifier for even more pictures, setting loader to save all kinds of changes, and more. To make this point clear, a brief retrospect of irish history, for at least a hundred years before the rebellion, is necessary. The mass drowning of protestants in portadown is the defining cultural memory of the 1641 rebellion, yet it is a little known and highly contested incident. The rebellion of 1641 was a continuance of the war waged by the irish not only to defend their land, but to preserve the very existence of their race.
This established two central themes in future irish history. Abstractthis article examines the attempt to coerce large numbers of protestants to convert to catholicism during the 1641 irish rebellion. The 1641 rebellion in irish history and memory, madison, wi 20. Ireland during the period 15361691 saw the first full conquest of the island by england and its colonization with protestant settlers from great britain. Throughout the course events in ireland will be situated in their wider british, european, atlantic and imperial contexts. A gaspesian indian defends his way of life, 1641 the. On may 12, 1641, the head of strafford fell on the scaffold. This took place from 2007 to 2010, and the resulting text has. People, places and events from that distant past the flight of the earls, the 1641 massacres, oliver and drogheda, william and the boyne still have meaning in popular culture, still inform public debates and still elicit strong emotional responses.
The 1641 depositions article pdf available in journal of historical pragmatics 2 january 2012 with 87 reads how we measure reads. The 1641 rebellion is one of the seminal events in early modern irish and british history. Under the happy stewardship of king charles i, they argued, the three kingdoms enjoyed relative peace and tranquillity in comparison to the distempers of europe. The irish rebellion of 1641 came about because of the resentment felt by the catholic irish, both gael and old english, in regards to the loss of their lands to protestant settlers from england and scotland. The atrocity stories from the irish rebellion, of course, were not all borrowed directly from foxe. Media in category irish rebellion of 1641 the following 2 files are in this category, out of 2 total.
What do the depositions tell us about plantation in ireland. Among the twentyeight articles of accusation against him seventeen related to his administration of affairs in ireland. Outbreak of the irish rebellion of 1641 book description. The guide to central personnel data file edits update 60, 020111 overview the guide documents how the cpdf system edits agency data. The seventeenth century is alive in ireland in ways like few other places in the modern world. The rebellion, which broke out in october 1641, was a. What was the reaction of the writer to these events. The scots in ulster pocket history 16001800 from ulster. Lexicogrammatical portraits of vulnerable women in war. However, unlike the pamphlet literature that appeared from november, 1641 to august, 1642 the early serials reported the irish massacres of protes. It becomes clear that the causes are multiple and complex. The irish rebellion of 1641 42 from a history of ireland and her people by eleanor hull, 1931. Full text of the irish rebellion of 1641, with a history.
This group is said to be descended from cromwells transported scots or perhaps english from monmouths rebellion. Between 1641 and 1653 ireland suffered a demographic collapse of staggering proportions. The sheer volume of deaths associated with the 1641 rebellion is a contentious issue, not least because the number of protestant fatalities was soon inflated to several hundreds of thousands by. The rebellion editor rebed for short is the best editor written by revolution to modify rebellion. I also teach a list 2 honors module on the troubles. Accounts written after the 1641 rebellion expressed surprise that the native irish took arms against the colonial order. Pdf lexicogrammatical portraits of vulnerable women in.
This essay explores the changing place of the 1641 rebellion in the memory. The christian religion has a tradition of martyrdoms that goes back to its foundation, while the black legend of spain and the atrocity stories of the thirty years war were crucial sources of anticatholic imagery for english people in the 1640s. Dublin for the editing, digitization and transcription of the depositions in their entirety. Ireland, 19681998 and a list 1 honors module on seventeenthcentury ireland, from rebellion. The catholic irish resented the new settlers and in october 1641 they rebelled. View enhanced pdf access article on wiley online library html view download pdf for offline viewing.
If the position for the scots in ulster was bad by the end of the 1630s, that of the native irish landowners was little better. The 1641 rebellion is the first phase of the conflicts that occurred in ireland during the wars of the three kingdoms and is seen as the conflict that gave the last push to a civil war between king charles i and parliament in 1642. Witness statements from irish rebellion and massacres of 1641 go online this article is more than 10 years old. The irish rebellion of 1641 came about because of the resentment felt by the catholic irish, both gael and old english, in regards to the loss of their lands to. The 1640s and 1650s were defining decades in irish history. The period saw irish society transform from a locally driven. Natural language processing and ibm languageware to the. Chrestien le clercq traveled to new france as a missionary, but found that many native americans were not interested in. The coup failed and the rebellion developed into an ethnic conflict between irish catholics on one side, and english and scottish protestants on the other.